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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
3
The General Aid Society of Andrew's Methodist church met Tuesday night with a devotion led by Miss Blanche Graham and a program including a Christmas Fantasia piano solo, readings, and a Star of the East duet. Forty members attended the gathering with a social time and gift exchange following a holiday-themed table launch.
The schedule lists a weekly Sewing club with Mrs William McFarland and a Christmas exchange on December 19. An Eastern Star party at the Masonic hall follows the next evening. Activities include a Girl Scout meeting December 20, and December 27 features the G H 8 Alumni Banquet at Andrews M E church at 6 15, the Field House dedication at Riverside Drive at 8 30, and a 10 o'clock dance by Sammy Kaye and his NBC orchestra at the New Field House.
The Quota Club charity dance opens its season on Thursday December 26 at the Moose Home. Jack Beatty's Orchestra will perform as the Ways and Means Committee hosts the event to raise funds for Christmas charities distributions.
Mr and Mrs Harold Tiser announce the birth of a daughter named Betty Jean born December 15 weighing seven and a half pounds.
James Stafford a student at West Virginia Wesleyan arrived in Grafton last night to spend the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs J F Stafford of Walnut street. Miss Jerry Morgan of Wilford street spent a few hours visiting in Fairmont last night. Mrs Mary A Shirley of a street returned home after a few days visiting Barbour county.
St Augustine School will stage a Christmas entertainment Friday at 8:00 in the school auditorium. The program features musical selections and novelties, a playlet called Christmas Candles by the younger students, and a nostalgic journey to the old stable in The Empty Room performed by freshmen and sophomores. Admission is 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults.
During a low mood stretch many Christmas shoppers favor practical gifts. Clothing and shoe stores report solid sales with suits and coats popular. Home goods such as refrigerators and parlor suites move briskly, while electric appliances and radios stay in demand. News and drug stores see heavy business and candy sales surge as Christmas tree purchases rise.
John Greathouse a 39 year old miner of Rosemont was seriously injured at Wad dell Fuel company mines in Rosemont while helping draw house coal. He was struck by a heavy pulley cable and fallen about thirty feet to the road below. He is under a physician’s care at his home for severe bruises with no broken bones.
In a tense session under fog and gloom Prime Minister Baldwin faced a subdued chamber. The resigned foreign secretary spoke as a private member arguing that public opinion in France feared a break with Italy and that settlement proposals from Paris were neither British nor French in tone. He warned that delay risked a drift toward European war and that Anglo French solidarity was essential. Lord Halifax later summarized a Lords debate, declaring efforts toward peace are dead.
The state department of health reported 171 dog heads examined showed rabies symptoms and that 10 persons died of the disease during the year.
Central Press columnist E V Shepard illustrates a small slam possibility in a challenging contract bridge session. North faced a large contract yet navigated the hand with skill while spectators debated whether the bid could be met.
A bridge bidding sequence ends with North achieving a small slam and West in doubt after a 6 Spades contract. The hand features West’s double, dummy’s A and K o f spades, and ruffing tactics in diamonds and clubs. Declarer eventually secures the final tricks to mate the opposition.
The Little Theatre of Grafton plans a Friday night performance of The Birds Christmas Carol at the High School auditorium. The family friendly holiday play features a large cast of local child stars and adults with Ruth Batten directing and postshow entertainment by local performers.
Police arrested A. C. Chapman and charged him with robbing Ross Mesencer of Morrontown after two suspects named him and promised to locate witnesses. The co suspects were released.
The account describes a youth becoming unconscious, reviving en route to a hospital and pleading not to be injected. Milne is depicted without socks or shoes, with a swollen foot, wrists bound to his knees with hemp, adhesive tape over eyes and mouth, and an overcoat used as a makeshift straight jacket, the sleeves pinned at the front.
Local store beams about a broad holiday assortment at Red Cross Pharmacy West Side. Gifts priced 26 to 50 cents include compacts 25 cents to 1 dollar, manicure sets 10 cents to 2.50, leather hand bags, men's bill folds 50 cents to 5 dollars, gold-engraved name on billfold, lamps, greeting cards, and Apollo Candy, with holiday space in front of store.
Barret faces execution for slaying federal agent Nelson Klein in College Corner Indiana last Aug 16 under a 1934 provision moving killings of federal officers to federal court. If Barrett’s appeal fails he will die before sunrise March 24, 1936 by hanging, the still standard federal death method.
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